Intel's 2.93GHz "Bloomfield" CPU to be named "Core i7 940"?

In a recent sighting of more Gigabyte X58-DS4 pictures, Hardspell posted a CPU-Z screenshot of the board running the 2.93GHz "Bloomfield" chip, which the program identifies as "Intel Core i7 940." Could this in fact be true? I'm still confused with the heirarchy and "identifiers" of the upcoming Nehalem lineup..

Oh WOW, our original source on the Core i7 940 (Hardware-Infos.com) apparently edited their "Core i7 Processors in mid-October" article (under the same original posting date - August 11, 2008....) to rename the "Core i7 940" back to just "Core i7 900"

more accurate translation:

"Behind the scenes, the Core i7 900 Extreme edition traded names with the 2.93GHz model, which will be known as Core i7 900."

(this still doesn't point to an absolute name for the "Extreme Edition." Perhaps it will share the Core i7 900 name but with an "Extreme Edition" identifier?)

Yeah Intel stated that the "i" and "7" doesn't mean anything. I guess they figured that it sounded unquie.

The "i" suffix should stand for Intel and they should have made the number suffix for the cores that each processor series has on it instead like i4, i6, i8 atleast it would have made more sense from a marketing standpoint.

Yeah Intel stated that the "i" and "7" doesn't mean anything. I guess they figured that it sounded unquie.

The "i" suffix should stand for Intel and they should have made the number suffix for the cores that each processor series has on it instead like i4, i6, i8 atleast it would have made more sense from a marketing standpoint.

As far as I remember, Pentium Pro, Pentium II and Pentium III were all referred to as P6 (686 architecture), while netburst architecture was referred to as P68 and NOT P7, since it was very different from the predecessors.

Core architecture is more similar to P6 than P68, then I think we could unofficially refer to it as P7. Or, if we want to differenciate Banias and Dothan architecture from it, we could think of them as P7 and of Core as P8.

Anyway, Nehalem should have nothing to do with 7...it should instead be 8 or 9.

Oh WOW, our original source on the Core i7 940 (Hardware-Infos.com) apparently edited their "Core i7 Processors in mid-October" article (under the same original posting date - August 11, 2008....) to rename the "Core i7 940" back to just "Core i7 900"

more accurate translation:

"Behind the scenes, the Core i7 900 Extreme edition traded names with the 2.93GHz model, which will be known as Core i7 900."

(this still doesn't point to an absolute name for the "Extreme Edition." Perhaps it will share the Core i7 900 name but with an "Extreme Edition" identifier?)